Civilization
Subtitle: the west and the rest
By: Niall Ferguson
Publisher: Allen Lane
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 402
ISBN-13: 9781846142734
Subjects: East and West; Modern History; Comparative civilization; Cultuur
Description: What was it about the civilization of Western Europe that allowed it to trump the outwardly superior empires of the Orient? The answer, Niall Ferguson argues, was that the West developed six "killer applications"?that the Rest lacked: competition, science, democracy, medicine, consumerism and the work ethic. The key question today is whether or not the West has lost its monopoly on these six things. If so, Ferguson warns, we may be living through the end of Western ascendancy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 348-378) and index.